Michael Esteban

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Psst! Have you heard? The #PyConAU schedule is now live! We're so excited to share the amazing line up of speakers who will be sharing their expertise at the conference this year! You don't want to miss it! 📆 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule 🎟️ 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets Help us get the word out? 📣

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

mood

Spreading the data donation love at the @ardc.edu.au symposium this week! Big high fives to our team at the AIO for the great work this year

good leaf season

I'm at risk for redundancy so if anyone is hiring a Senior or Lead UX Researcher remote or in London hybrid let me know! Open to perm or contracts

i constantly think about this post

telling that people who are professionally Very Computer so often want Less Computer in their lives

they should be taken to The Hague for this graph crime

one of my favorite ideas, said 4 ways

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

I've been playing around with making small animations from GPT-4o image gen. This was a surprisingly fun small project! I've tapped away and written some words here: mikeesto.com/posts/animat...

Emma always makes me want to shut my laptop and hike in Japan. Came for the writing, got entirely distracted by the photos..

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github's not loading. turn off uBlock. it loads

@laurenhayden.bsky.social Hellooo fellow monochrome friend!

autumn in Melbourne 😌

Nvidia's new Parakeet ASR model is fast. I got it running on my M3 MacBook Pro using parakeet-mlx where an hour of audio only took just over a minute to transcribe! mikeesto.com/posts/parake...

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Fascinating how good the Gemini 2.5 models are at spatial understanding, feels like Google are the ones really pushing multimodality mikeesto.com/posts/image-...

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

sudo certbot --nginx is a delight. it's so much easier to setup https on a vm now than whatever i was trying to manually throw together years ago

it's cool that text-to-speech models like kokoro can even run on a raspberry pi mikeesto.com/posts/kokoro...

so i started a new job. and i'm now on cyclone watch. it's been an interesting two weeks

naps2 is a delightful piece of foss software. so much easier to work with scanners than the proprietary junk they ship with

looking for my 2024 visual studio code wrapped

It's #DDDBrisbane day! And the last conference of the year for me

ah yes, another year of advent of code and not doing anything past day 10

Going to try out a monthly newsletter! I already had 100 subscribers, who were mostly subscribed from when I had the newsletter linked on my blog in 2020 - 2021. To be honest I am expecting some people to unsubscribe since it's been 4 years, but we'll see 😆 emgoto.substack.com/p/newsletter-0

i've started asking myself, 'Is this an improvement?' and it's been a helpful phrase to overcome perfectionist paralysis

i had a day to see the sights and hide from the sun

it's going to be 37 degrees tomorrow, and then 23 the next day. quintessential Melbourne #pyconau

Lmk what you think

I have no real use for the new mac mini yet I am still tempted because it is so smol